Account Executive

1 week ago

San Francisco, CA, United States Glacier Co Full time
We're currently focused on candidates based in the West region exclusively.

Hey, we're Glacier Series A startup based in San Francisco tackling one of the world's most pressing problems: trash. Did you know that in the US, we send over half of our recyclables to the landfill? We're working to fix that. In doing so, we'll also be reducing carbon emissions, energy consumption, and depletion of natural resources.

Glacier builds custom sorting robots designed to sort apart recyclables as well as AI-powered business analytics that enable recyclers to superpower their plants and improve our society's circularity. From major CPG companies like Colgate and Amazon to municipal recycling facilities, our clients trust us to turn recycling data into actionable insights. Our technology has been recognized as one of TIME's Best Inventions and featured in a TIME documentary, TechCrunch, Fortune, and CBS.

We're looking for an experienced Account Executive to develop relationships with customers, drive complex sales deals, and help our founders develop the strategy and capacity planning for our near-term expansion. This role reports directly to our Director of Business Development.

Responsibilities:

You will oversee our full sales cycle. Detailed responsibilities include:
  • Build and nurture client relationships, serving as a trusted advisor
  • Drive growth by managing full-cycle sales: prospecting, presenting, negotiation, and closing
  • Develop compelling presentations, demos, and proposals that address client objectives and objections
  • Develop strategic account plans to meet revenue targets
  • Collaborate with marketing, product, and support teams to ensure client satisfaction and retention
  • Maintain accurate pipeline data, forecast revenue, and deliver reports on performance metrics
Additionally, you will:
  • Work with our Director of Business Development to establish our sales strategy and growth plan
  • Provide ongoing customer feedback as a core input to our engineering roadmaps
Experience requirements:
  • Significant professional experience (3+ years) in complex enterprise B2B sales, especially solutions with a hardware component
  • Familiarity with capital equipment sales or long-cycle, relationship-driven deals is highly valuable
  • Demonstrated success managing a full sales cycle: prospecting, discovery, presentations/demos, contract negotiation, and closing
  • A proven track record of meeting or exceeding revenue quotas in previous roles
  • Knowledge of budgeting, cost estimating, legal reviews, and contractual procedures
  • Proficiency with CRM tools (Salesforce, HubSpot, etc.) and pipeline management
What traits will make you successful in this role:
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills
  • Strong consultative selling skills - Ability to uncover needs, handle objections, and guide customers through trade-offs
  • Resilient through long, complex sales cycles with multiple stakeholders
  • Personable and able to build long-term trust with operators, engineers, and executives alike
  • Comfortable selling a complex, AI-powered product and translating technical features into customer value
  • Eager to learn the recycling process and how MRFs operate, even without prior industry background
  • Disciplined with CRM, pipeline management, and forecasting
  • Keeps deals moving forward with clear next steps and accountability
  • Thrives in a fast-growing company where playbooks are still being written
  • Willing to wear multiple hats (prospecting, presenting, negotiating, relationship management)
  • Creative in finding new ways to engage prospects (grants, conferences, industry news)
  • Ownership mentality - Relentless drive to achieve results and proactively solve problems with minimal direction or supervision
  • Willingness to travel and work on-site up to 50% of the time. In the near term, travel will be within the United States
Bonus points:
  • Prior sales experience at early-stage startups (

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